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California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit in San Francisco County against ExxonMobil for allegedly misleading the public into believing that recycling could resolve the plastic pollution crisis, all while allegedly knowing that the narrative was false. The lawsuit comes at the end of a two-year investigation by the attorney general’s office into the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries in California and is part of a greater push by the state government to deal with the issue of single-use plastics.
ExxonMobil promotes and produces the largest number of polymers used in the creation of plastics, which can then be molded by other companies into the single-use plastics that California is attempting to regulate. According to the office of the attorney general, ExxonMobil has spent decades using strategic marketing, from articles in TIME magazine to adopting and promoting the triangle of chasing arrows that most people now associate with recycling, to make Americans believe that all plastics are recyclable. This contrasts with the fact that only about 5% of consumer plastics in the United States are recycled, and most plastics made from ExxonMobil polymers are “virgin plastics,” having never been recycled.
Bonta’s office is suing for nuisance abatement, civil penalties, and disgorgement, which if successful, would force the company to turn over any profits it gained illegally. The state is also seeking injunctive relief to “protect California’s natural resources from further pollution, impairment, and destruction, as well as to prevent ExxonMobil from making any further false or misleading statements about plastics recycling and its plastics operations.”
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